TY - BOOK AU - Lassala, Carlos (ed) TI - Financing Startups: : Understanding strategic risks, funding sources, and the impact of emerging technologies SN - 9783030940577 PY - 2022/// CY - Switzerland PB - Springer KW - Economics; Start-ups N1 - 𝐓𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 (𝟏𝟎 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬) Investment Cycles Front Matter Pages 1-1 Download chapter PDF Financing Rounds with Private Capital Dolores Botella-Carrubi, Ana Maqueda-Llongo, Alejandro Valero-Moya Pages 3-20 Angel Investing Startups Edward Graham Pages 21-29 Crowdfunding: Another Way of Financing My Business Luis René Vásquez-Ordóñez, Carlos Lassala, Samuel Ribeiro-Navarrete Pages 31-47 A Prospective Analysis of the Advantages of Crowdlending to Startups Eva Porras González, José Manuel Guaita Martínez, José María Martín Martín Pages 49-70 The Financing of Minority Entrepreneurial Efforts in the USA Derek Abrams Pages 71-80 Bank Credit in Europe Between Two Crises: From the Great Recession to the COVID-19 Pandemic Francisco del Olmo-García, Fernando Javier Crecente-Romero, María Sarabia-Alegría, María Teresa del Val-Núñez Pages 81-95 Startup Innovation Front Matter Pages 97-97 Download chapter PDF Emerging Technologies in Financing Startups Antonio de Lucas Ancillo, Sorin Gavrila Gavrila, Julio Cañero Serrano Pages 99-116 ICOs, IEOs and STOs: Token Sales as Innovative Formulas for Financing Start-Ups Noelia Romero-Castro, Ada M. Pérez-Pico, Klaus Ulrich Pages 117-147 Financing Start-Ups Through Artificial Intelligence Ricardo Costa Climent, Darek M. Haftor Pages 149-162 N2 - There is no doubt that the proliferation of entrepreneurial activity is a current trend. Start-ups enable an effective transformation of knowledge, generating high added value to society. The objective of this book is to address the financing of the entrepreneurial process as a necessary element to articulate a solid business fabric, based on taking advantage of new opportunities. The book is structured in two parts. The first part takes as a reference the lack of financing in the entrepreneurship process and analyses different sources of financing available to entrepreneurs depending on the phase in which the project is located. The second part of the book analyses innovation and its links to the financing of start-ups, addressing the impact of emerging technologies and fintech services and the support of artificial intelligence. Finally, the book concludes with an examination of decentralized finance (DeFi), as an idea that is changing the financial world, giving rise to new financial paradigms ER -